Too Strong For Fantasy, Marcia Davenport Biography Book. From the cover, "The daughter of the great lyric soprano Alma Cluck, and the step-daughter of the renowned violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Marcia Davenport was raised in a world of music, and her earliest memories are of Arturo Toscanini, whom she calls "the dearest friend I have ever had." She began her writing career at the age of twenty-five, on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, where she knew Harold Ross, E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, and James Thurber. Much of this memoir concerns Czechoslovakia, a country and people she came to love. Ironically, because of her long and close friendship with jan Masaryk, the foreign minister of Czechoslovakia who died mysteriously in 1948, and her moving account of his death, the Communist government suppressed the book. It has only recently Deen published in Czech. In Too Strong for Fantasy a perceptive writer re-creates an era of unequaled excellence in music, and of passionate political conviction, set against the backdrop of a world torn by war and distorted by Communist ideology." It is paperback, has 483 pgs., is illustrated with photos and it is in good used condition.

Circa: 1967
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
ISBN: 3-8229-5907-0  

Tuxedo Park, by Jennet Conant Biography Book. Tuxedo Park, A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II. From the cover, "In the fall of 1940, as German bombers flew over London and with America not yet at war, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill carried out a daring transatlantic mission. The British unveiled their most valuable military secret in a clandestine meeting with American nuclear physicists at the Tuxedo Park mansion of a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Powerful, handsome, and enormously wealthy, Loomis had for years led a double life. spending his days brokering huge deals and his weekends working with the world s leading scientists in his deluxe private laboratory that was hidden in a massive stone castle. In this dramatic account of a hitherto unexplored but crucial story of the war, Jennet Conant traces one of the worlds most extraordinary careers and scientific enterprises. It is a hardback, has 330 pgs., is illustrated with photos, maps and it is in good used condition.

Circa: 2002
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
ISBN: 0-684-87287'0  

The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder Historical Book. The Measure of All Things, The Seven-year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World. From the flyleaf, "A midst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers (Pierre-Francois Andre Mechain, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre) set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure the world, one voyaging north to Dunkirk, the other south to Barcelona. Their findings would help define the meter as one ten-miliionth of the distance between the pole and the equator, a standard that has since swept the planet. The Measure of All Things is the astonishing story of one of history's greatest scientific quests, a mission to measure the Earth and define the meter for all nations and for all time. It is hardback, has 422 pgs., is illustrated and it is in good used condition.

Circa: 2002
Publisher: THE FREE PRESS
ISBN: 0-7432-1675-X  

The Rights of Man as Told in Seven Great Documents Booklet. This booklet contains (in part) The Sermon on the Mount, The Magna Charta, The French Declaration of Rights, The Declaration of Independence, The American Bill of Rights, The American Bill of Rights, The Emancipation Proclamation, Women's Suffrage Act. From the back cover; "FOR A BETTER AMERICA Let these documents and their stories be a reminder of our free institutions and of the reason why America remains great." The cover has been torn otherwise it is in good used condition.

Publisher: Unknown  

The Professor and The Madman, A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. Simon Winchester, Harper Collins, First Edition, 1989, 242 pgs., ISBN 0-06-017596-6. It is in good condition.
Circa: 1998
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0-06-017596-6  

American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson by Peter Kurth. From the cover; The acclaimed biography of Dorothy Thompson, the popular yet controversial journalist whose reach extended from presidents and prime ministers to the millions who read her opinionated, hard-hitting newspaper column "On the Record." Thompson's private life, which included a tempestuous marriage to Nobel atileas her career. American Cassandra sheds light on the life of this influential woman while tracing the course of twentieth-century journalism and politics. It is paperback, has 587 pgs. and is in good used condition.

Circa: 1990
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 0-316-50723-7  

Richard Feynman, A life in Science, John and Mary Gribbon. Dutton, 1997, 301 pgs., ISBN 0-525-94124-X. It is in good condition.
Circa: 1997
Publisher: Dutton
ISBN: 1-525-94124-X  

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, Murder, Magic and the Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Cronicles the 1891 Chicago Worlds Fair planning and constuction and the bizarre murders that were going on at the same time. 2003, 432pgs and in excellent condition.

Publisher: Unknown  

Versace, The Naked & The Dressed, by Avedon. 20 Years of Versace with photos of Elton John, Kate Moss, Stephanie Seymour, Renee Russo, Brooke Sheilds, Iman, Jerry Hall, Kim Alexis, Andie McDowell, cindy Crawford, Christy turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Sylvester Stallone, Theartist Formerly Known as Prince, Elizabeth Hurley, Jon Bon Jovi and more. This book was published in 1998 and is in excellent condition. Free shipping to anywhere in Continental US!

Publisher: Unknown  

The Boy He Left Behind by Mark Matousek, A Man's Search for His Lost Father, 2000, 259pgs. and in excellent condition.


Publisher: Unknown  

The Private Life of Polar Exploration by J.M. Scott. This book published in 1982 by William Blackwoods & Sons, Ltd. has 177pgs., is illustrated with photos, has no dust jacket otherwise it is in good condition.

Circa: 1982
Publisher: William Blackwood
ISBN: 0 85158 153 6  

The Great Adventure, How the Mounties Conquered the West. This book by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths was published in 1997 by St. Martin Press has 416pgs., is illustrated with maps and is in excellent condition. The story tells that with little training and less experience, in 1873 150 men embarked upon a 900-mile march from civilized Toronto to a trading post at the heart of the wild frontier with a goal of bringing order to a lawless land. Here, the authors present a perspective of this extraordinary event, using diaries and memories, contemporary newspaper accounts, and other recently discovered materials.

Circa: 1996
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0-312-15538-7  

Whose Hands Are These? A Gifted Healer's Miraculous True Story, amazing case histories of practical miracles, Gene Egidio, 1997, 238pgs., pink highlighted passages otherwise in good condition.

Circa: 1997
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN: 0-446-5204S-4  

Antarctic Comrades, An American with the Russians in Antarctica. This book by Gilbert Dewart was published by Ohio State University Press in 1989, has 194pgs., is illustrated with photos and is in excellent condition.

Publisher: Unknown  

Book, The Rich Tide by David Frost & Michael Shea. This book subtitled Men, Women, Ideas and Their Tranatlantic Impact was published in 1986, has 385pgs., no dust jacket and is full of historical facts, is highly illustrated and in good condition.

Circa: 1986
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 0-00-217427-8